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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1909
Page
5
A Washington diplomat lauds Dr. Harvey Wiley for pure food reform, noting painful truths offend producers. The piece weaves humorous vignettes about a doorbell tale, dowries, hair, canal motives, a cough remedy, and a district debate with loud distractions.
A design summary outlines a compact small barn with one single and one double horse stall, two single cow stalls, a harness room, feed bins, and a large carriage room. It discusses a workshop division for blacksmith and carpenter work, tool quality, safety, and efficient layout. It also covers site selection, pasture basics, and the importance of fresh water and proper poultry care.
Packing the fleeces described as laying on a table with head and flanks tested then rolled into a neat cylinder. A tylog hook and rope pass through slots in wood to secure the load. The fleece rests on the rope and the roll is tied, aiding wool buyers in handling bales.
The article notes the Baldwin apple’s origin from a Lowell Massachusetts seedling around 1740 with Colonel Baldwin later naming and developing it. the tree survived past 1817. It also reports farm labor hours from Minnesota studies showing summer workdays exceed winter hours, and mentions breeding corn gains in Wisconsin from 25 to 412 bushels per acre between 1901 and 1907, urging continued effort.
European death rates vary with Stockholm and London among the lowest. Parchment is made by dipping unsized paper in sulfuric acid, then washing. The Czar Nicholas II's three year old son is insured for 2500 dollars. The Igorrote provinces in the Philippines unite under one governor and Bontoc becomes capital. Formosa and the Philippines both export sugar valued at four million dollars in 1907. Coal comes from many inland Philippine areas, but output last year was 4545 tons. A North Carolina laborer patents a tamping machine equal to fifty men on old and new roads. The Kansas-Oklahoma oil field leads 1907 production, now ahead of California. Illinois rises to third. Dr. S Weir Mitchell is elected to the Royal Society of England. A banquet in Australia sparks a debate over the American fleet, ending in patriotic singing. Chicago clubwomen seek dress rules for working women, noting a postal rule that women mail carriers wear trousers. A tale recalls a German prince asked nine times twelve equals seventy-two, prompting a tutor’s scorn. Landor’s volatile yet gentle nature is illustrated by a rose-bed anecdote. A Yorkshire inn pianist struggles with a mixed black and white singing, failing to align keys. Simon Newcomb criticizes dirigible use for war, doubts aerial planes will conquer flight, deeming aviators’ future uncertain, dangerous, and costly.
A collage of clipped quips and ad blurbs from a historic newspaper page. Items include slang ridin tales, patent remedies, a bone fide nerve tonic pitch, a senatorial tax remark, an offer for typewriters, and a government inquiry into old age pensions for workers, all rendered in period voice.
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